Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Sir John Barrow's Cottage, Ulverston


	Sir John Barrow's Cottage, Ulverston
	Sir John Barrow's Cottage
locality:-	Dragley Beck
locality:-	Ulverston
civil parish:-	Ulverston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	buildings
coordinates:-	SD29037757
1Km square:-	SD2977
10Km square:-	SD27

	BMJ73.jpg (taken 11.6.2007)

evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 1 p.93 "SIR JOHN BARROW, BART." "..." "He was born on the 19th June, 1764, in a small cottage at the village of Dragleybeck, near Ulverstone, North Lancashire, (as he has stated in his Autobiography published last year,) "being the only child of Roger and Mary Barrow. The said cottage had been in my mother's family nearly 200 years, and had descended to her aunt, who lived in it to the age of 80, and in it my mother died at the advanced age of 90. ..."

evidence:-	old print:- Waugh 1860
source data:-	Print, engraving, Birthplace of Sir John Barrow, at Dragley Beck, Ulverston, Lancashire, published by Alexander Ireland and Co, 22 Market Street, Manchester, 1860. click to enlarge WU0107.jpg On p.30 of Over Sands to the Lakes, by Edwin Waugh. printed at bottom:- "BIRTHPLACE OF SIR JOHN BARROW, AT DRAGLEY BECK." item:- Armitt Library : A1082.7 Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Dragley Beck Cottage
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "DRAGLEY BECK COTTAGE / / RAKE LANE / ULVERSTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460026 / SD2903677565"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Also known as: Sir John Barrow's Cottage RAKE LANE. House, now shop with accommodation above. C17, altered. Painted roughcast with slate roof replacing thatch. Single storey with loft and with outshut at rear. To each side of the doorway there is a window with plain reveals, slate sill, and 3-light timber casement: the left-hand window is at a slightly higher level. The doorway has plain reveals. The right-hand (east) gable has a brick chimney cap with diagonal shafts. The left-hand gable wall is blank. Against the right-hand gable wall are 2 single-storey outhouses of unequal size, with monopitch roofs which meet at a central valley. Above is a blocked attic window of 2 lights with chamfered timber mullions. The rear wall has low eaves and 3 windows with plain reveals." "INTERIOR: to the left of the doorway is a solid masonry wall. The left-hand room has sawn timber ceiling joists and an access hatch leading to the attic. The right-hand room has 2 roughly chamfered main beams, one probably originally a firehood bressumer. The fireplace has a timber cornice mantel. Above is a marble tablet with an inscription which is said to read: 'In this humble cottage, the best memorial of his enterprising spirit, industry and perseverance, was born on the 19th June, 1764, Sir John Barrow, Baronet, L.L.D., F.R.S., who accompanied Lord Macartney's Embassy to China; who travelled far into the interior of Africa, and who was for forty years (embracing the whole period of the last war), Secretary of the Admiralty. He died in London on the 23rd November, 1848, in the 85th year of his age. Remarkable for the vigour of his mind, as his latter works abundantly testify, and scarcely less remarkable for the activity of his body. SOLI DEO GLORIA.' (Rimmer JS: The Story of Ulverston: Ulverston: 1925-: 26)."

hearsay:-	Sir John Barrow was born 19 June 1794 in a cottage at Dragley Beck. He excelled at mathematics; taught maths at a school in Greenwich; accompanied Lord McCartney's expedition to China, 1792; wrote naval biographies, and the standard account of the mutiny on the Bounty; and became Second Secretary to the Admiralty, promoting british exploration. He was a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830. He died in London, 1848.

	personal
person:-	: Barrow, John, Sir
place:-	birthplace
date:-	1794

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